OLD ENGLISH 6; UNIT 10_A_05

Jerry was always there, telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the.. situation...[r]

You have two choices

Jerry is the manager of a

restaurant He is always in a good mood

When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply,

"If I were any better, I would be twins!"

Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs,

so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant

Why ？

Jerry was a natural motivator

If an employee was having a bad day,

Jerry was always there, telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the

situation.

Seeing this style really made

me curious, so one day I went

up to Jerry and asked him ：

"I don't get it! No one can be

a positive person all of the

time How do you do it?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today I

can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be

in a bad mood.

I always choose to be in a good mood.

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to

be victim or I can choose

to learn from it I always choose to learn from it

Every time someone comes

to me complaining, I can

choose to accept their

complaining or I can point

out the positive side of life

I always choose the positive side of life."

"But it's not always that easy,“ I protested.

"Yes it is," Jerry said.

"Life is all about choices

When you cut away all the junk every situation is a

choice

You choose how you react to

situations

You choose how people will

affect your mood

You choose to be in a good

mood or bad mood

It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later,

I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the

restaurant business.

He left the back door of his restaurant open

And then ???

In the morning,

he was robbed by three armed men

They want?

#123*+!@$%&*~

While Jerry trying to open the safe box,

his hand, shaking from

nervousness, slipped off the combination

The robbers panicked and shot him.

Luckily, Jerry was found

quickly and rushed to the hospital

After 18 hours of surgery

and

weeks of intensive care,

Jerry was released from the

hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.…

I saw Jerry about six

months after the accident

When I asked him how he was,

he replied, "If I were any

better, I'd be twins Want

to see my scars?"

I declined to see his

wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.

"The first thing that went

through my mind was that

I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied

"Then, after they shot me, as

I lay on the floor, I

remembered that I had two

choices: I could choose to

live or could choose to die I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared“

I asked?

Jerry continued, "The

paramedics were great

They kept telling me I was going to be fine

But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression

on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really

scared

In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.'

I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry "She asked if I was allergic to anything."

'Yes,' I replied.

The doctors and nurses

stopped working as they waited for my reply

I took a deep breath

and yelled, 'Bullets!'

Over their laughter, I told them,

'I am choosing to live

Please operate on me as

if I am alive, not dead'

"Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his

amazing attitude

I learned from him that

every day you have the

choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it

The only thing that is truly yours that no one can control or take from you-

is your attitude,

so if you can take care of

that, everything else in life becomes much easier

Now you have two choices to make:

1 You can delete this

message or

2 You can forward it to

everyone you care about

I hope you will choose #2

I did.